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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … of Willa Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, … Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red Cloud organizations and almost fifty volunteers from eleven Nebraska towns helped the …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the … of sharing a good book. For residents of the Great Plains, My Ántonia embodies the NEA’s "Where We Live" theme. The … from Bohemia (the Czech Republic today) in 1880. While My Ántonia takes place in the late 19th Century, its themes …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… The National Endowment for the Humanities Big Read of My Ántonia : September 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 — Programs and … p.m. ET • Readings by actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davison, with musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter … Coordinator, at npowers@willacather.org . PLAN YOUR TRIP My Ántonia Holiday Tour Festive Sites from a beloved novel … interiors and locations in Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Several sites will be decorated for the season …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the … in. Because of Willa Cather’s intensity of observation, My Ántonia remains a revelation.” — Pulitzer Prize winner …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April … Image Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting Program | June 8, 2024 Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting A … 2024 It was a beautiful, breezy afternoon on June 8 for our Willa Cather Childhood Home Rededication and Ribbon Cutting! …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive restoration in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa …
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The Potter Family
… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
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Willa Cather Biography
… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… one of America’s greatest novelists. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive … of the Cather family. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was Cather’s residence … may also be made online . For more information, please contact Executive Director, Ashley Olson, at …
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